Better Pipe Organ Database

Casavant Opus 1683 (1941)

Trinity United Church
230 Barber Ave. N.
Listowel, ON, CA

Images

2014-07-21 - Right stopjamb (Photograph by Brandon Johnston/Brandon Johnston)

2014-07-21 - Couplers (Photograph by Brandon Johnston/Brandon Johnston)

2014-07-21 - Left stopjamb (Photograph by Brandon Johnston/Brandon Johnston)

2014-07-21 - Console (Photograph by Brandon Johnston/Brandon Johnston)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
2 manuals
16 stops
18 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler toe pistons

Notes

2014-09-08 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. -Database Manager

2016-06-23 - Updated through online information from Ian Mason. -Database Manager

2020-04-09 - The sanctuary and previous organ had been destroyed by fire in 1940; 18 new ranks of pipes (including a new Great) supplied in 1978 by Casavant via Leonard Jeff & CF. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives Date not recorded

    Listowel, Ontario
    Trinity United Church

    Casavant   Op. 1683   1941   2/16
    __________________________________________________________________

    GREAT (enclosed)          SWELL                      PEDAL

 8' Open Diapason  68       8' Open Diapason    68    16' Major Bass    32
 8' Melodia        68       8' Stopped Diapason 68    16' Bourdon       32
 8' Dulciana       68       8' Viola da Gamba   68    16' Gedeckt       12 SW
 4' Principal      68       8' Voix Celeste     61     8' Stopped Flute 12
 4' Flute          68       4' Traverse Flute   68
 8' Clarinet       68       8' Cornopean        68
    Tremulant               8' Oboe             68
    Super                   8' Vox Humana       68
    Chimes      prep           Tremulant
                               Sub
                               Super
                               Chimes           GT

                    --- NEW PIPEWORK PROVIDED IN 1978 ---

    GREAT                      SWELL                      PEDAL

 8' Principal      61   2 2/3' Nazard           61     8' Principal     32
 8' Rohrflöte      61       2' Principal        61     4' Principal     12
 4' Principal      61     III  Zimbel    1'    183
 4' Koppelflöte    61      16' Oboe     L/2     12
 2' Waldflöte      61       4' Schalmei         61
II  Cornet         98
IV  Mixtur 1 1/3' 244       

                  [Received from Jeff Scofield March 9, 2020]